Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Symposium Global Foucault: Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought 7 de Junho 2024 / 7th June 2024 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | Auditorium 3 Simpósio Temático com Roberto Esposito 16h: Roberto Esposito: “Oltre la biopolítica” / “Beyond Biopolitics” Introduz e modera / Introduction and moderation by: Gianfranco Ferraro (CEG – Universidade Aberta de Lisboa) Comentário crítico …

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GLOBAL FOUCAULT Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought Lisbon, 6-7 June 2024 (in person & online) Orgs.: Gianfranco FERRARO, Greg BIRD, Giovanbattista TUSA Universidade Aberta, Centro de Estudos Globais – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91692099038 More info: https://foucault40.info/lisboa | https://globalfoucault.wordpress.com/ Contact: globalfoucault@gmail.com n the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death, the Differenças italianas …

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PDF of program and other details Foucault and Marx Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles International Symposium 18–19 October 2024 University of Vienna, Austria The symposium aims to explore the tense relationship between Foucault and Marx and, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death in 2024, to put it into perspective with regard …

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Institut français de recherche sur le Japon Published on Jun 18, 2018 Conférence donnée à la Maison franco-japonaise le 21 mai 2018 Conférenciers : Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE (ENS Lyon, Institut français), Patrice MANIGLIER (univ. Paris Nanterre) Modérateur: Mathieu CAPEL (UMIFRE 19- MFJ) Dans la préface qu’il rédige en 1972, pour la réédition de son Histoire de …

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Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, Society for contemporary thought and the Islamicate world (SCTIW) 3/21/2017 “Foucault and Iran” by Banu Bargu (New School for Social Research) 3/23/2017 “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes” by Anthony C. Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College / CUNY Graduate Center) 3/28/2017 “Foucault: Against …

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Foucault in Ireland 24 March 2017 Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Attendance is free but you are required to register A symposium focused on the engagement of the ideas of Michel Foucault by scholars working on the island of Ireland. It begins with a roundtable on the recent works on Foucault by …

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Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Introduction: The Making Visible of Carceral Politics Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick This symposium contains a rich collection of contributions based on the screening of the French documentary film Sur les Toits (“On the Roofs”). On a Wednesday in May 2016 I invited the film’s independent maker, Nicolas Drolc, and…

The “Biological Turn” in Law – A Critical Appraisal This symposium is a cooperation between UNSW Law, the Initiative for Bio-Legalities, the School of Social Sciences, and the Biopolitical Studies Research Network, UNSW. Date: Friday, 23 October, 2015 Venue: Staff Common Room, Level 2, UNSW Law Building RSVP: http://thebiologicalturninlaw.eventbrite.com.au This symposium is interested in pursuing …

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Call for Papers Theatre, Performance, Foucault! TaPRA Theatre, Performance, and Philosophy working group interim event – a one-day symposium Date: 4th July 2015 Location: King’s College London Further info Michel Foucault was not only one of the most controversial and provocative thinkers of the 20th Century, he was also one of its most inventive and …

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